Sütqatın

Kumyk · numen · Kumyk traditional religion; continuing · numen

Sütqatın ('milk-woman', from Kumyk süt 'milk' and qatın 'woman') is a personified power invoked in Kumyk rain-calling songs alongside Zemire. Sources differ on her character: some ethnographers class her among the benevolent water-and-fertility deities who bring rain, while others, drawing on Central Asian parallels, interpret her instead as a malevolent spirit of drought and scorching heat. Either way she belongs to the cluster of named powers that govern rain in Kumyk agrarian ritual.

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